Memory
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Uilderstandlng; a capacity to make contracts, a will, or to commit a crime, so far as Intention is necessary. Memory is sometimes employed to express the capacity of the understanding, and sometimes its power; when we speak of a retentive memory, we use it In the former sense; when of a ready memory, in the latter.
Shelf ord, Lun. Intr. 29, 30.
The reputation, good or bad, which a man leaves at his death. This memory, when good, is highly prized the memory of the dead, when the writing has a tendency to create a breach of the peace, by inciting the friends and relations of the deceased to avenge the insult offered to the family.
4 Term 126; 6 Co. 125; Hawkins, PI.
Cr. b.
1, c. 73, s. 1.
See Libel; PbivacY. As to witness refreshing his memory, see Memoeandum.